Main Criteria: Wyoming Content and Performance Standards Secondary Criteria: Subjects: Science, Social Studies Grade: 5 Correlation Options: Show Correlated Wyoming Content and Performance Standards Science Grade: 5 - Adopted: 2009 CONTENT STANDARD WY.1. Concepts and Processes: In the context of unifying concepts and processes, students develop an understanding of scientific content through inquiry. Science is a dynamic process; concepts and content are best learned through inquiry and investigation. Concepts in Life Systems, Earth and Space Systems, and Physical Systems are taught within the context of the following Unifying Concepts and Processes of Science: Systems, classification, order and organization; Evidence, models, and explanations; Change, constancy, and measurement; Evolution and equilibrium and Form and function SC8.1.2. Life Systems: Reproduction and Heredity: Students describe reproduction as a characteristic of all living systems, which is essential to the continuation of species, and identify and interpret traits, patterns of inheritance, and the interaction between genetics and environment. SC8.1.3. Life Systems: Evolution as a Theory: Students explain evolution as a theory and apply the theory to the diversity of species, which results from natural selection and the acquisition of unique characteristics through biological adaptation. SC8.1.4. Life Systems: Diversity of Organisms: Students investigate the interconnectedness of organisms, identifying similarity and diversity of organisms through a classification system of hierarchical relationships and structural homologies. SC8.1.5. Life Systems: Behavior and Adaptation: Students recognize behavior as a response of an organism to an internal or environmental stimulus and connect the characteristics and behaviors of an organism to biological adaptation.
SC8.1.6. Life Systems: Interrelationships of Populations and Ecosystems: Students illustrate populations of organisms and their interconnection within an ecosystem, identifying relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers. SC8.1.8. Earth and Space Systems: The Structure of the Earth System: Students examine the structure of the Earth, identifying layers of the Earth, considering plate movement and its effect, and recognizing landforms resulting from constructive and destructive forces. SC8.1.9. Earth and Space Systems: The Earth's History: Students systematize the Earth's history in terms of geologic evidence, comparing past and present Earth processes and identifying catastrophic events and fossil evidence. CONTENT STANDARD WY.2. Science as Inquiry: Students demonstrate knowledge, skills, and habits of mind necessary to safely perform scientific inquiry. Inquiry is the foundation for the development of content, teaching students the use of processes of science that enable them to construct and develop their own knowledge. Inquiry requires appropriate field, classroom, and laboratory experiences with suitable facilities and equipment. SC8.2.4. Students recognize the relationship between science and technology in meeting human needs.
CONTENT STANDARD WY.3. History and Nature of Science in Personal and Social Decisions: Students recognize the nature of science, its history, and its connections to personal, social, economic, and political decisions. Historically, scientific events have had significant impacts on our cultural heritage. SC8.3.1. Students explore the nature and history of science. GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SC8.3.1.a. Students explore how scientific knowledge changes and grows over time, and impacts personal and social decisions. GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SC8.3.1.b. Students explore the historical use of scientific information to make personal and social decisions. CONTENT STANDARD WY.3. History and Nature of Science in Personal and Social Decisions: Students recognize the nature of science, its history, and its connections to personal, social, economic, and political decisions. Historically, scientific events have had significant impacts on our cultural heritage. SC8.3.2. Students explore how scientific information is used to make decisions. GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SC8.3.2.a. The role of science in solving personal, local, and national problems. GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SC8.3.2.b. Interdisciplinary connections of the sciences and connections to other subject areas and careers in science or technical fields. GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SC8.3.2.c. Origins and conservation of natural resources, including Wyoming examples.
Wyoming Content and Performance Standards Social Studies Grade: 5 - Adopted: 2014 CONTENT STANDARD WY.SS5.3. Production, Distribution, and Consumption: Students describe the influence of economic factors on societies and make decisions based on economic principles. GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SS5.3.4. Explain the roles and effect of money, banking, savings, and budgeting in personal life and society. CONTENT STANDARD WY.SS5.4. Time, Continuity, and Change: Students analyze events, people, problems, and ideas within their historical contexts. GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SS5.4.1. Describe how small changes can lead to big changes (cause and effect) (e.g., discovery of electricity). Ancient Egypt - Land of the Pharaohs Ancient Egypt - Land of the Pyramids Ancient Greece - Birthplace of Democracy Ancient Mayan Civilization Rome - The Eternal City - Part 1 Rome - The Eternal City - Part 2 CONTENT STANDARD WY.SS5.5. People, Places, and Environments: Students apply their knowledge of the geographic themes (location, place, movement, region, and human/environment interactions) and skills to demonstrate an understanding of interrelationships among people, places, and environment. GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SS5.5.1. Spatial: Apply mental mapping skills and use different representations of the Earth to demonstrate an understanding of human and physical patterns and how local decisions may create global impacts. Canada - An Overview Exploring Cuba Grade 4 - Southeast Region of the U.S. London - City of Pomp & Majesty Paris - City of Light - Grades K - 5 Paris - La Ville Lumiere (En Francais) Tokyo - City of Contrasts
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SS5.5.2. Physical Place and Region: Explain how physical features, patterns, and systems impact different regions and how these features may help us generalize and compare areas within the state, nation, or world. Canada - An Overview Exploring Cuba Grade 4 - Southeast Region of the U.S. London - City of Pomp & Majesty Paris - City of Light - Grades K - 5 Paris - La Ville Lumiere (En Francais) Tokyo - City of Contrasts Washington, DC - Grades K - 5 GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SS5.5.3. Human Place and Movement: Describe the human features of an area (e.g., language, religion, political and economic systems, population distribution, and quality of life), past and present settlement patterns (e.g., American Indians and the Oregon Trail), and how ideas, goods, and/or people move from one area to another. 2018 EdGate Correlation Services, LLC. All Rights reserved. Contact Us - Privacy - Service Agreement